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Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: Stitch Fix, CrowdStrike rise; Dollar Tree, Campbell Soup fall

Discount retailer Dollar Tree says it’s looking at strategic options for the Family Dollar stores that it owns, including a possible sale of the segment

Since coming to power a decade ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been known for big, bold and often snap decisions

Russia’s foreign minister has pledged more support to Burkina Faso in fighting militant groups as he presses his whirlwind tour of West Africa in an attempt to fill a vacuum left by the region’s traditional Western partners

The Japanese government data shows the country's birth rate fell to a new low for the eighth straight year in 2023

TORONTO — A proposed class-action lawsuit has been launched against Toronto-Dominion Bank related to the ongoing investigations into the bank’s anti-money-laundering program in the U.S.

Odisha Elections 2024: Naveen Patnaik resigned as the Odisha Chief Minister on Wednesday. He tendered his resignation to Governor Raghubar Das at Raj Bhavan, Bhubaneswar. The development came a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ended Patnaik's 24-year rule in Odisha by winning 78 of the 147 seats in the assembly on Tuesday.

Lionsgate UK secures rights to release the Ian McKellen thriller 'The Critic' in UK and Irish cinemas. The film features a star-studded cast and is set in 1930s London.

Juneteenth 2024 in the US is being observed on Wednesday, June 19. Juneteenth is federal holiday after US President Joe Biden had signed the legislation on June 17, 2021.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that a particular religion has not voted for NDA in Nagaland, Meghalaya and Manipur.

BJP's Rae Bareli candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh, who lost to Rahul Gandhi, said on Wednesday that he will be on a partial leave only on Saturdays and Sundays for a year and hoped the Congress leader will solve the problems of the locals. According to the Election Commission (EC), Rahul Gandhi secured a total of 6,87,649 votes against Dinesh Pratap Singh who got 2,97,619 votes.

Muslim candidates across the country have won the Lok Sabha elections and they include former cricketer Yusuf Pathan of the Trinamool Congress from Bahrampur in West Bengal and Congress' Rakibul Hussain from Dhubri in Assam. However, the community's presence in the 18th Lok Sabha has reduced marginally from 26 last time but is higher than the 2014 tally when 23 Muslim candidates were elected to the lower house of Parliament.

TMC MP Saket Gokhale has asked securities market regulator Sebi to investigate the June 3 stock market manipulation triggered by election exit polls. In a letter to Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch, Gokhale said multiple exit polls predicted a landslide win for the BJP. But, one exit poll predicted “extremely strange” and “inflated seat numbers” for the BJP in several Indian states.

stock market was also impacted as it descended into panic buying and selling, leading to heightened volatility. While share prices can be easily figured out on real time basis, it becomes difficult to do so when it comes to ETF trading on stock exchanges. Many investors unaware of the impact of high volatility on their investment ended up losing money or unexpected gain.

SÃO PEDRO DE ALCÂNTARA, Brazil—A prison in southern Brazil has come up with a novel way to bolster security: replacing guard dogs with geese. A squadron of nine silky-feathered birds—the “geese agents," as guards call them—now patrol the grassy strip of land between the inner fence and the outer wall at the high-security prison here in São Pedro de Alcântara, a small town some 400 miles north of the border with Uruguay. Fiercely territorial, the fiendish nine-pounders can be surprisingly intimidating, charging at anyone who dares enter their enclosure and unleashing a deafening cacophony of honks and shrieks that serves to alert guards if one of the prison’s 1,300 inmates tries to escape.

It takes market about one week after poll results to revert to pre-election levels, says JPMorganBenchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty made a strong comeback on Wednesday, surging over 3 percent each after suffering significant losses in the previous session due to below-expectation Lok Sabha poll results.Recovering from Tuesday's downturn, the 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 2,303.19 points, or 3.20 percent, to close at 74,382.24, driven by value buying in banking, auto, and oil shares. Meanwhile, the NSE Nifty climbed 735.85 points, or 3.36 percent, to 22,620.35.Despite the NDA securing a comfortable majority in the 543-member Lok Sabha with over 272 seats, the BJP fell short of the magic number for the first time since 2014, relying heavily on its allies for government formation.

My son’s iPad is set to restrict him from visiting most websites. And yet I was able to use it to access the most X-rated parts of the internet. Porn, violent images, illicit drugs.

Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra "where there was a direct alliance." In states such as West Bengal and Punjab — where the alliance partners contested against each other — the alliance managed to reduce the BJP-led NDA's seat share. Moreover, analysis showed that regional parties seemed to have gained more than the Congress in West Bengal, Kerala and Punjab where INDIA bloc allies were in contest against each other.Uttar Pradesh: The SP won 37 seats – the maximum among all the other parties. The Congress won six seats of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats.

Kishori Lal Sharma, the newly elected Member of Parliament from Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, met with top Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, and Rahul Gandhi in Delhi today. Sharma, who recently defeated BJP's Smriti Irani in a high-profile contest, visited the Gandhis to submit Rahul Gandhi's winning certificate and seek their blessings.

After launching their ‘Buenavista’ incentivized testnet, Warden Protocol core team announced their Genesis Campaign Phase 2. This new phase will be focused on offchain & onchain activities that will help us scale the Warden Protocol community. The core team aim is to onboard active community members with a gamified leaderboard experience that will ultimately reward contributions with WARP tokens; a liquid tokenized representation of your activity.

An alarming report from Tether’s CEO, Paolo Ardoino, confirmed that a major vendor managing mailing lists for various crypto companies had been compromised. This breach has potentially exposed sensitive information, leading to fraudulent emails suggesting crypto-airdrops.